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New York — An elderly blind man heard his neighbor’s screams for help yesterday and did not hesitate, rushing into her burning Queens building to try to save her. James Shackelford, 73, a retired JFK Airport cook blind from diabetes for a dozen years, then became engulfed in flames himself. Fortunately, he wasn’t the only […]

New York — It wasn’t easy getting on the train. It was even harder getting off. After a flight from Boston and a day working at JFK airport, I got on the Airtrain around 7 p.m. Sunday only to find the tracks were iced over and it couldn’t move. Taxis weren’t an option either, and […]

Philadelphia — Bernard “Bernie” Wilson, 64, who helped define the Sound of Philadelphia as a founding member of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, died early Sunday.

As the mystery around Teena Marie’s sudden death unravels, it appears a seizure may have played a role in the singer’s passing.

Washington — Juan Williams hit out at Sarah Palin on “Fox News Sunday,” saying she could not match President Obama intellectually.

Massachusetts —  Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard scholar, and Rudolph P. Byrd, a professor at Emory University, say their research for a new edition of “Cane” documents that Toomer was “a Negro who decided to pass for white.”

NEW YORK — A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands of would-be air, rail and road travelers Monday, shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day, stranding buses on buried highways, and forcing New York City subway riders to spend a cold night in unheated trains.

The Second Day of Kwanzaa (December 27) On the second day the black candle is again lit, as well as the farthest red candle on the left. This represents the 2nd principle of Kwanzaa – Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-goo-LEE-ah): Self-Determination. Again a statement about the second principle and its meaning might be made. Or possibly a passage […]

According to eurweb.com: BeBe Winans is about to put on a new hat as the executive music director of Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. Along with being a singer, radio host and judge on “Sunday’s Best,” Winans is doing quite enough and maybe too much. The mega church in which this very busy man will […]

DALLAS —  Police say Pastor Sandy McGriff broke into a church members home to steal fur coats and laptop computers on Christmas Eve.

Washington — Uncertainty reigns in the race for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee despite the election being less than a month away.

CHICAGO — It’s not on a par with how Chicagoans used to keep voting after they died. Or with the curious case of the man in the 1980s whose signature wound up on a local ballot application – twice_ even though he had no fingers or thumbs.